sodium_nitride [any, any] @ sodium_nitride @hexbear.net

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My simulation model was built with scalability in mind, so I should be able to test Ian Wright's pricing strategy.

"Hufflepuff chuckfuck"

Does not need to be portmanteaud. The full form is clearer and has a lyrical quality.

The portmanteau sounds like a wierd sex act

#portmaNO

Imma quickly bookmark all these nice looking sources.

Me neither. I'm just going about the motions of life.

I learnt it from the guy in the first place. But yes, that's a great idea. I'll see if I can contact him.

You might be on to something, although I expect the curve to have something to do with logarithms as well (since it's on a log scale). Or it might be some really weird function.

Also, you can post images onto desmos?!

A senior banker in Paris said he was shocked by the letter. “It’s crazy . . . but everything is now possible. The rule of the strongest now prevails.”

Hasn't the EU being doing shit for a long time now? Strong arming companies abroad in the name of "human rights"?

Unlike pure fusion projects such as ITER, Xinghuo will combine fusion and fission. The high-energy neutrons from fusion reactions will trigger fission in surrounding materials, increasing energy output while potentially reducing nuclear waste.

So will the fission part of the plant will be processing nuclear waste?

Also, interesting that the hybrid nuclear plant has the opposite approach as hybrid nuclear bombs, where fission energy is used to trigger a fusion reaction.

They only reproduce. They do not metabolize.

Is reproduction not metabolic activity though? The "life cycle" of the virus is utterly dependent on the existence of other organisms, but this goes for any organism other than those which do not feed on anything.

I see viruses as the simplest possible life which lacks all functionality except to participate in the evolutionary process. This is really just a personal view, but I think of evolution as a special phenomena that only a living thing can undergo. It's kind of strange for me to think of a non-living thing evolving by natural selection.

I absolutely do not think LLMs are alive or in any way intelligent any more than a virus is.

It really depends on how you define intelligence, although I do agree.

From the definition of "system with a goal, a memory, an ability to sense its environment and an ability to effect its environment", which is the definition I would use, I also agree that LLMs are lacking true intelligence. Most crucially they lack a goal (they have been designed such that they lack any motives of any kind).

At that point we need to re-assess our definition of "life", otherwise we steer sharply into creating digital slaves.

I might be too pessimistic, but I think human society would much rather place limitations on the intelligence of AI so that a truly sentient AI cannot be made. Making a truly sentient AI and then not exploiting is not something I can see present day human society doing. We already have trouble treating human beings as humans

I don't know if my degree counts as a special interest, but electrical engineering is full of wild things.

My favorite part about electrical engineering history is something I found when I was writing a paper on electromagnetic coils.

Predicting the inductance (the characteristic we use the coils for) and self capacitance of such coils as it turns is a very complicated topic. The math for calculating the field in the coils is very difficult, so many engineers have come up with formulas for approximately predicting the inductance.

Now it turns out that one of these formulas (for the self capacitance of coils), which is still used relatively often, was created by a guy called J. Palmero. His formula is simple and elegant. Unfortunately, if you dig through the data he used to provide evidence that his formula worked, it turns out he SEVERELY "massaged" the experimental data he had gotten from a well respected engineer (Feiedrich Grover) at the NIST. He used this to build reputation for his formula. Throughout my entire research,I only saw basically 2 people (Medhurst* and David Knight) who even seemed to know about this.

The only way I ended up finding about any of this is because I dug through obscure research papers and data published in the early 20th century.

Now imagine being a 16 year old doing a school project about coils and then uncovering decades old obscure scientific fraud. I felt like Indiana Jones finding abandoned ruins.

*the autocorrect seems to have beef with this guy, since it keeps changing his name to "Midhurst" for some reason.

I would consider viruses alive because they can replicate and evolve. I think it's unfair for us to put unnecessary standards on them. They are trying their best.

Also, being able to go dormant for thousands of years and waking up to cause havoc in the right circumstances is literally final boss behaviour. We gotta give em credit for that at least.

I'm a bit more into music than many of my friends. So i guess it might count as a "special interest".

I found this really cool type of music called "microtonal" music, which uses different (and more) notes than traditional western tonal systems. A lot of middle Eastern and Indian music is "microtonal" as well, although that term seems kind of eurocentric when you put it that way.

Either way, microtonal music can get really wierd and cool. I especially like sevish (on youtube) who makes nice and odd melodies. You can even make microtonal music with as many as 313 distinct tones (although I've never seen anyone use all of them in one song)

I just checked. What the fuck. How???????. Why???????